Love the description of regeneration projects. Fighting the "bloody boring brown Lego architecture" here in west London and failing: greed wins especially as the London Plan is predicated on "build as high as you can get away with".
Lego is an apt analogy. They're building student flats on the land in front of the marina. It's a tiny spit that comes off Billingsgate onto a huge roundabout and there will be two, fourteen storey towers there to look forward to.
what a wonderful walk - I'm curious (because there's so much detail in these excursions) do you have a near-photographic memory or do you makes notes as you wander? I proper giggled at this: "All around me I watch as multi-million pound businesses build massive, overpriced penis extensions that loom over the patchwork of housing estates below, waiting to jizz all over them until at some stage, everyone will live on a dinghy in the Thames and have to catch eels with their toes to survive" and Substack asked me if I wanted to re-quote or re-stack or do something else with the section I copied, but I was worried I'd blow up the interweb with my ineptitude.
I am really poor at things like spatial awareness, telling left and right and anything that involves numbers. Over the years I have developed ways of getting around that involve a lot of noticing of things and I think it's just become habitual. Also, I love story telling so anything that seems like it might be a good story gets filed away. I take lots of photos to remind me of stuff, most of which end up on Instagram and I take the odd note, especially if it's a bit of dialogue I overhear. x
Wealth measured in how much space you can squander; this is the river’s space borrowed. I’m in love with this piece. Atmospheric, and honest.
Thank you. x
Love the description of regeneration projects. Fighting the "bloody boring brown Lego architecture" here in west London and failing: greed wins especially as the London Plan is predicated on "build as high as you can get away with".
Lego is an apt analogy. They're building student flats on the land in front of the marina. It's a tiny spit that comes off Billingsgate onto a huge roundabout and there will be two, fourteen storey towers there to look forward to.
what a wonderful walk - I'm curious (because there's so much detail in these excursions) do you have a near-photographic memory or do you makes notes as you wander? I proper giggled at this: "All around me I watch as multi-million pound businesses build massive, overpriced penis extensions that loom over the patchwork of housing estates below, waiting to jizz all over them until at some stage, everyone will live on a dinghy in the Thames and have to catch eels with their toes to survive" and Substack asked me if I wanted to re-quote or re-stack or do something else with the section I copied, but I was worried I'd blow up the interweb with my ineptitude.
I am really poor at things like spatial awareness, telling left and right and anything that involves numbers. Over the years I have developed ways of getting around that involve a lot of noticing of things and I think it's just become habitual. Also, I love story telling so anything that seems like it might be a good story gets filed away. I take lots of photos to remind me of stuff, most of which end up on Instagram and I take the odd note, especially if it's a bit of dialogue I overhear. x